‘Modernist’ Women Writers and Narrative Art

Wheeler, K.

This book is an examination of the fiction of Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Jean Rhys, Stevie Smith, Katherine Mansfield and Jane Bowles, with a view to clarifying the narrative strategies these women adopt to establish, in varying degrees, a critique of realism and its hidden dualistic, patriarchal assumptions about life, literature, and society. While examining the literary conventions and the innovations of various texts, Kathleen Wheeler is careful to respect the particularity and individuality of each of these writers.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1994-08-16

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780333617328

DOI: 10.1057/9780230375826

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 220